Despite rapid advances in reading the genetic code of living organisms, scientists still face a major challenge today—knowing a gene's sequence does not automatically reveal what it does. Even in ...

This analysis, called GWAS (genome-wide association study), revealed one major region in the cotton genome strongly associated with resistance to race 18 of bacterial leaf blight. Follow-up studies ...

National University of Singapore, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine Despite rapid advances in reading the genetic code of living organisms, scientists still face a major challenge today - knowing a gene ...

Researchers have described how the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus genetically adapts to humans, including mutations that allow some strains to evade the immune system and become resistant to ...

The genetic culprits responsible for the spread of multidrug resistance (MDR) in bacteria have been identified by new research mapping 100 years of bacterial evolution. Experts at the Wellcome Sanger ...

Bacteria living in healthy human intestines use molecular syringes to inject proteins that directly bind and adjust immune ...

The bacteria Acinetobacter baumannii (A. baumannii) is a haunting presence in many hospitals in the United States, where more than one in 100 patients are treated for A. baumannii infections. This ...

It’s no mad science, but there is a lot of talk about mutant genes inside a research lab at the University of Regina. On the fifth floor of the university’s research and innovation centre, the Babu ...

New research has identified a unique genetic signature in bacteria that can predict their likelihood of developing antibiotic resistance, a finding that can help quickly identify precision-based ...

The first large-scale genetic study of E. coli's protective armor has identified the five capsule types that are responsible for 70 per cent of all multidrug-resistant bloodstream infections in Europe ...